Family

Some people think a family includes, a mother a father and kids like in the old TV shows. But thats not always the case. Some families include one parent. Some may have no children. Some may even have pets instead of children. I think a family is just a group that cares about eachother. They don't all have to live with eachother either. Its just a group that supports eachother and cares for eachother. Thats what a family is. No matter how big or small.

Analysis of Womens Role...

Women in Ancient Greece where looked as inferiors and they were lower then men. They had no opinion they where not aloud to have a voice and speak their mind. The following quote summarizes my point. "Your great glory is not to be inferior to what God has made you, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether they are praising you or criticizing you.

Pause and Reflect questions...Think Throughs...

PAUSE AND REFLECTS:

1) pg: 266- My impression of Oedipus is that he is cowardly and not sure of himself because he said hes wept through the nights. If he wasn't such a coward and if he was a better leader and wouldn't be crying, he would be doing something about it.

2)pg: 269- The cause of the plague in Thebes was because the King was killed.

3)pg:272- In the reading it hard a part that said it was one long cortege. A cortege is like a funeral procession. I just pictured like one funeral procession after another because there were so much deaths it was like one after another.

4)pg: 275- The curse that Oedipus made was that, "Let no crop grow out of the earth for them -shrivel their women, kill their sons, burn them to nothing in this plague that hit us now, or even something worse." that was for people who disobeyed. Bur the first curse was, "Let that man drag out his life in agony, step by painful step-"

5)pg:281- The murderer of Laius was Oedipus the king. In the reading Tiresias said, " I say you are the murderer you hunt."

6)pg:291- The reasons why Oedipus turns against Creon is because he thinks he is lying to him and trying to kill him.

7)pg:299- Oedipus starts to panic and becomes fearful because he knows he is the man who killed him.

8)pg:303- That his "father" is dead.

9)pg:307- Because he was left on the hill with his feet pinned together and was found and given to Polybus.

10)pg: 313- That he was the son of Laius.

11)pg:322- He blinds himself from agony and pain and because he discovered the truth. He blinds himself with pins from his mothers/wife outfit.


THINK THROUGHS:

pg:283

1)Oedipus sent for Tiresias because he is the only one that knows the truth about who killed the king.
2)The chorus thought that he was a great leader.
3)Oedipus was so determined to find the murderer of Laius because he was scared that the same thing could happen to him.And to stop the plague that was killing his people.

pg:300

1)At the place were three roads meet Oedipus killed a man that was his father the king but he didn't know he was his father or the king.
2)Oedipus ran away from his home in Corinth because he was scared that the prophecy about him killing his father would come true so he left.
3)Jocasta thought that the prophet and the prophecies were lies.

pg:314

1)The shepherd gave the baby to Polybus.
2)They think that hes a bad leader for killing a generation and that hes a bad leader.
3)He accidentally made the prophecy come true because he didn't know he was adopted and he ran away from people he thought were his parents but weren't really his parents and killed his real dad and married his mom accidentally.
4)I predict that he will probably kill himself or runaway.

Mendela and Pericles

1) They both honor who they are and where their from. Biko was killed by being beaten to death for his cause and fighting against racial segregation. The soilders where killed for war and for fighting for their country.

2)To remeber the death of Biko was important because it helps to remeber the struggle and to remeber what happend. Nelson wanted a more humane society for his people and for them to get along.

Poems by Sappho

1) I think out of all poems I best understand " He Is More Than a Hero." because its about someone special that makes her nervous when he's around. She talks about how she can't speak, and she gets a tingling feeling and her heart races, which are feelings you get when your around a special person. I think its easy to understand because I have felt that way before.

3)In Sapphos poem, "Some say througing cavalry..." is about a friend of the writers whos moving away because of a war or because shes in danger but she misses her. In the second poem, "He Is More Than a Hero" it talks about a relationship and the girl gets nervous everytime th boy comes around and talks to her. Lastly in the final poem called, "To Aphrodite of the Flowers, at Knossos" is about a holy temple and how its so graceful and beautiful and smells good with frankincense.

4) I think the second sentence (She values intimiate moments of friendship) is true because in the first poem shes sad that her friends going to a diffrent island. Also the last sentence (she appreciates the beauty of nature) because the last poem talks about the temple and how beautiful it is with its apple trees and frankinsence.

6)I would Mary J. Blige because she has a very strong R&B soulful voice which I love and some of the poems are meant to be strong and meaningful.

Writing Option 2.

The year of seventh grade I had a teacher named Mr.McLelen but we called him Mr.Mac. He taught science, everyday in his class he would have a power point on his TV. In his class we would have a journal and we would complete our assignments in the journal. But he would go really fast and we would have to write really fast in the beginning of the year but as the year went on we got used to it which helped because it taught me how to write fast. He was extemely funny, loud, and crazy. Just like Dorona he was crazybecause he risked his life hoping that one of his students would think fast and save him.

Mr.Mac was a great teacher because he played around but we did get a lot of stuff done...a lot. In his class was the first time I disected a frog. He was very nice and made sure we didn't get sick disecting them. Also we planted plants in his class. Lastly he had lots of pets in his class. I think he had a snake and a huge fish tank full of colorful fish. All in all due to his creativity and craziness I learned a lot and loved his class he truly did make science fun.

A typical day at school.....

My name is Karina Marquez and I am from Sarasota, FLA typical school day for me starts off when I go to the bus stop at 6:20 a.m. The bus picks me up about 10 minutes later and then I am on my way to school. To any normal outsider Booker High isn't a school that would be a on the A list due to its looks. The neighborhood you go through to get to Booker is not the prettiest neighborhood, its pretty ghetto actually. Its a one floor school. Its mostly outside and open its not completely closed school. Theres about 37 buildings not including the portables.

Booker (unlike some highschools in the area) has block schedualing so we only have 4 classes a day but each class is 85 minutes. In most cases you have two core classes and two electives. If you have VPA (visual and preforming arts) those will be your electives.

Most of the students eat lunch at school. They have normal school lunch everyday along with Pizzahut Pizza. On certain days they have cookies. Theres no soda at my school. Only juice and flavored water and of course regular water.

Booker High approxamently contains 1760 students that attendend. There are a varity of students unlike most schools in Sarasota County, Booker is the most diverse. We have a lot of African-Americans, Latinos, and Caucasions. But minority contains most of the Booker population.